The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
When the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists expected the surrounding land to remain uninhabitable for ...
In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation in ways that appear to blunt their cancer risk. Far from collapsing, their ...
The frogs’ adaptations is similar to adaptations made by humans in high-radiation regions, pointing to an underlying ...
Opening thoughts. The mutant wolves of Chernobyl have genetically evolved enough to be protected against cancer. I landed on a report that biologists from Princeton University have studied wolves in ...